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animus🔊

The basic impulses and instincts which govern one's actions.

A feeling of enmity, animosity or ill will.

📑 Synonyms: bad blood

(law) Intention, motivation (of a legal person).

(Jungian psychology) The masculine aspect of the feminine psyche or personality.

💬 Quotations
In the Jungian model of the psyche, the male has an internalized female counterpart, the anima; while the female has an internalized masculine counterpart, the animus.
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